Today's News

As I mentioned earlier this month, although the Bedford area’s elections for board of supervisors and school board consist of six races between the incumbent and Mickey Mouse, the races for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general each feature two candidates. There are three in the 19th District House of Delegates race.

Both Staunton River and Liberty won their homecoming games this past Friday. In fact, River won its third straight homecoming contest. The Eagles had disappointed Patrick County and James River fans, who were hoping for a happier time of things.

Ken Cuccinelli was one of the three featured speakers at an event sponsored by Concerned Women of America and held at Brookhill Wesleyan Church Thursday night. Cuccinelli is the Republican nominee for attorney general.

According to Chris Freund, vice president of policy and communications for the Family Foundation and another of the featured speakers, the candidate elected attorney general will make a difference.

A suggestion that Bedford County adopt a property maintenance code elicited a mixed reaction at last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting.

District 6 Supervisor Annie Pollard told her fellow supervisors that some people in her district have called her complaining about run-down properties. She suggested the county adopt a property maintenance code.

A broken insulator knocked out power to much of Bedford late Wednesday afternoon.

According to Jeff Weddle, the city’s public services director, the outage occurred when a glass/porcelain insulator broke at the city’s Mosley substation, located off Patterson Mill Road. This disconnected the 69,000 volt line that delivers power from Appalachian Power to the substation.

Betty Stafford has diabetes and controlling her blood sugar has been a struggle. A new support group has helped her learn what foods to eat and how to prepare them.

That’s the kind of help a diabetes support group in the Bedford area provides. The group was organized as a collaborative effort between Bedford Memorial Hospital and the Bedford Parish Nurse Ministry.